I would have thought he meant "inside of the West". Outside of the West you have other channels.

Russia: Telegram

Taiwan: Line

Japan: Line

By contrast, WhatsApp is best known to me for being used in Europe, Australia, and India.

RyJones 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Japan is mostly Instagram, line, WhatsApp, telegram, in that order, for me.

For business comms drop instagram and move WhatsApp to first.

For Singapore it seems LinkedIn messages are the go to IM for business.

Europe p2p: telegram number one by a huge margin, then WhatsApp. B2b: WhatsApp, period.

throwaway290 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Telegram is degraded/blocked in russia depending where you are and how authorities feel today

N19PEDL2 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think the most used messaging app in Russia now is Max.

	▲	throwaway290 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		According to official statistics it is the most used app since 1 september 2025 /s

jjani 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Central Asia is Telegram as well.

	▲	guappa 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think in italy telegram is 2nd to whatsapp